22.19. For the purposes of this Act, a victim is any natural person who suffers physical or psychological injury or incurs property loss as a result of the perpetration of an offence.
If the victim dies, is a minor or is otherwise unable to receive communication of the information to be communicated under section 22.20, the person’s spouse or a parent or child of the person, or any other person in whose custody or care the person is placed, shall be considered to be a victim if an application to that effect is made to the warden of the house of detention.